The following computer-generated description may contain errors and does not represent the quality of the book:This short treatise written, not by the Archbishop of Paris, as carelessly stated by some newspapers, but by Mgr. de Segur, the author of the work lately translated and published under the title of "Plain Talk," was composed to unveil and show Freemasonry, as it is in the Old World. Its strictures, therefore, are not wholly applicable to Freemasonry, as it is in the United States. Yet, Masons here may read it with profit to themselves; and those who are not Masons, but might be tempted to join some Lodge, will, it is hoped, abandon the idea, if they read this book. Even here, Freemasonry is a Secret Society; and to become a member of it, one must take at least an oath, and swear by the name of God, to do so-and-so. Now, God's command is: "Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain." And surely, it is taken in vain by American Freemasons, because they take it without any sufficient and justifiable cause.